The Game of Thrones panel at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con is scheduled to begin later today (3 PM PT/6 PM ET/10 PM GMT). The panel will feature writers and producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, cast members Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke, and Jason Momoa and will be moderated by writer George R. R. Martin. Quite an impressive panel indeed.

We here at Winter-Is-Coming.net will have compete and comprehensive coverage of this panel. Not only will we have Fire and Blood tweeting live from the event, but myself and Hear Me Roar will be compiling all other fan and journalist tweets and photos into the following live stream (embedded after the jump). It’s like a mega-live blog — the next best thing to being there. So come back at the aforementioned time to follow along!

UPDATE 4:45 PM ET: EW.com is doing a live pre-panel interview with the cast starting NOW! Watch it here.

No, every role is probably not filled. They only need certain parts for the first chunk of filming. They’ve already announced the big parts. There’s no reason they can’t cast others much later in the game – even near the middle/end of the shooting schedule several months from now. It all depends on how they schedule things.

Probably won’t be able to watch the feed from work but I’ll check it out later. I’m still crossing my fingers for a video!

If they follow last year’s format, they will film roughly in the order of the episodes. I expect Ygritte will only be in episodes 9 or 10, so probably a while before they HAVE to announce her. May get that soon anyway, of course.

However, characters like Jaqen and Craster will be very early in the season, so we should get some info on them soon. Hopefully.

Hello
First time posting. I was hoping you guys could ask the producers a question regarding the second season. If the budget is limited and there might not be a battle of blackwater, if they have thought about having it animated. I know it might be somewhat jarring, but if it could be done like in Kill Bill or the recent Mortal Kombat webseries, also what does everyone else think about that idea. Love this site by the way, I check it out every day.

BST is the standard time for the isles during summer. Even though Greenwhich is situated there the British time is actually GMT +1 during the summer (’cause Greenwhich never changes for summer).
We in central Europe are at GMT +2 during the summer, so we’ll have the panel at midnight.

I would like to see a few more cast memebers do these kinds of panels. I love Michelle Fairley, Jack Gleeson, Aiden, and Nikolaj (yum)! I look forward to more interviews and behind the scenes stuff this season. I hope they got some for the DVD release! Please someone ask about the DVD, if you get a chance!

Also, I want to know if the actors think it’s a difficult transition from doing acting in contemporary rolls to fantasy types like this.

Blackfish Blues:
“Night gathers, and now my watch begins… it will not end until I learn something about the Blackfish…”

You’re not alone in hoping for news of a Blackfish. I share your pain, and support your bottom. :] *crosses fingers*
I also share your befuddlement at the time zone thing. I cannot for the life of me figure out what time this thing is going to start, haha.

andrea:Blackfish Blues,
where are you??? I´ll do your math for you if you want.San Diego time: GMT – 8hs.I´m in Argentina (GMT -3) and 4 hours after San Diego. I have to wait until 2 am I think… without drinking.

San Diego? Argentina? If only. I love you too, Andrea, whichever gender you are, but I’m in Italy. Not too long to wait for, now.

Wow, luck would have it that I clicked on the EW live stream before coming here! Emilia, Kit, Peter, Lena, and Nikolaj were interviewed. Emilia talked about eating the horse heart and meeting Gwen (Brienne), and Peter said Stephen Dillane is one of his favorite actors. Can’t wait for the full panel :)

Probably, you know that here we´re almost all of italian and spanish descent. Where in Argentina live your friend? I have friends living there too, of course. Not surprise indeed to end up being relatives.
Not confuse any more. Me: 7 pm but I have no hope… it seems that I can´t see anything

How strange it is to see them all sitting together and having fun instead of conspiring against each other. So today-ish and happy.
I’m listening to DwD now and often I catch myself on imagining some characters with the actors’ faces. Not all of them, but some.
Tyrion (Blackwater changed his features a little), Cersei, Jaime, Arya and Catelyn I portrait rather like Amoka’s visions of them, but Dany, Drogo, Robert, Ned, Sansa, Jorah (series discovered this character for me), Tywin and Jon have faces of actors playing them.
And it’s not that I don’t like the cast. It is that way. Just so.

I don’t think you should take what the Game of Thrones or HBO twitter says so literally. It’s just a media guy at the event whose job it is to keep discussion going. Not an HBO executive or anything. Nothing that twitter account says is really meant to be “official” HBO news.

I’m not sure I like the comment that in season three things will start to differ from the books. I’m not necessarily asking for strict adherence, but I think that they’re doing an admirable job at adapting A Song of Ice & Fire, and I’d hate to see them make drastic changes in an attempt to “finish off” the series. I may be a bit off-base (seeing as I wasn’t actually at the panel, and therefore have no context), it just struck me as a strange comment to make. And by “finish off”, I mean wrap things up in a way not consistent with the novels.

Then again, I’m the kind of viewer who was fine with the fact that Deadwood ended where it did, simply because if there’s one thing I like less than a series being unceremoniously cancelled, it’s when a series whips together an ending with little notice and rushes through events (kind of like Rome, which had a good second season, but certainly moved far too quickly) to provide “closure”. I guess what I’m saying is I prefer consistency. Actually, I’m not sure what I was trying to say…

I took their comments to mean more… they could retire off that episode when they get there. Meaning their legacy would be made as it would go down in television history. I don’t think they mean they’re happy as long as they get to finish season 3 because they can wrap things up and retire after that, so I doubt it means drastic change.

As far as things starting to differ, I think they’re referring only to the 1 book 1 season format. By season 3, they’ll have to adjust and move things forward and push things back and break into two seasons or one and a half, etc. Seasons 1 and 2 should be mostly 1 book, 1 season, almost perfectly aligned.

Ya, I realized after that it was from the HBO twitter account, but I think I just took it to mean: “hey, there are going to be questions asked, and depending on what those questions are, there are bound to be some answers regarding season 2 (we don’t know what the questions will be, since some will come from the audience)”.

Thanks for the coverage guys! It was fun reading what everyone was saying, but if I’m honest I was a little disappointed with the panel itself and the lack of new info. It seemed like a lot of the questions that were asked were pretty generic or were things that we’ve already had answered numerous times in previous interviews/features.

It would be really cool to do something live like this again though (for this site).

Makes sense. I was hoping for some casting news too, but after the casting announcements started coming earlier this week, I got the sense that today’s session would be truly just a panel, meant more to recap and relive the past season with the fans.

Right. The “big three” have been announced, and Brienne besides. Unless there was some sort of cameo In a smaller role I don’t know who it would have been. Who knows? Maybe there are a few roles they’re waiting to finalize that they thought might be signed?

Granted, it being just teasing marketing language is much more likely.

Wow, I was late to the panel coverage and have been waiting for Entertainment Weekly to post the cast interview for hours now, and it was terrible. Makes me miss Michael Ausiello :(. He was always able to giddy up exhausted casts for fun little videos.

Watched three of the five panel scenes on youtube (waiting patiently for the others).

Moment in spoilers in case you want to be surprised:

Loved Dinklage pretending like he was going to step up to the plate when Momoa declined the chants to do the haka.

Also pleased that the reported “Lena criticized for giving Cersei too much humanity,” was Lena relating that to a questioner who asked her about what it was like playing such a complex character. The way it looked to me during the live Tweeting was that someone had slammed her at the question mic. Glad the fans were nicer than that.

Watching part four, I was happy to see that they did talk a bit more about Season 2 than I thought from the live feed. It’s just that a lot of the info was stuff that book readers already know, so maybe wasn’t relayed as much.